I DID IT!  I managed to get one more comic done before leaving!  Only barely, it’s the night before I leave as I write this, but it got done!  …and I’ll already have been back for a few days by the time this goes live.  Well, if there’s anything else to report by the time this goes out, hopefully Future Me will step in and add it right… HERE:

(EDIT: I actually don’t have anything else to add, I just wanted to put SOMETHING here just to make sure nobody thought this page had gone live automatically after I died in some horrible car crash or something.  I’m still alive!)

…okay, moving on.  Actually, this is the last page before the big Christmas set kicks off next month! Twenty-five straight days of special Christmas content… that I’m still only half finished with as I write this.  Hopefully Future Me will have already gotten some more work on THAT stuff done by the time this goes live, too.  In the meantime, this isn’t the best pre-Christmas cliffhanger (nothing will EVER beat page 693) but I’m still glad I was able to squeeze SOME kind of cliffhanger in amid all the last-minute toss-ups that went on over the past month.  Originally, there wasn’t even going to BE a transition point, things were just going to awkwardly pause mid-conversation for a month… though even THAT wouldn’t have been the longest or most awkward pause in this comic’s recent history.  But yeah, see you Wednesday!